My survey results, which were already fairly unscientific, meant nothing.
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The psychologists considered his claims unscientific, and severed the relationship.
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Crowd size is a famously unscientific measure of candidate strength.
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Finally, Buddhism is not quite as unscientific as Gopnik intimates.
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And while they may be unscientific, they're not completely wrong.
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I can offer an unscientific one from my own experience.
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But we eliminated Mexican cities for a simple, unscientific reason.
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This utterly unscientific list, arranged alphabetically by series, contains spoilers.
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But it is flatly unscientific to reckon that description is explanation.
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An unscientific survey of high schoolers and teachers confirmed Juul's virality.
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Welcome back to an Unscientific Power Rankings for Major League Baseball.
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He also read the results of unscientific, opt-in online surveys.
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He implied that Mr. Harris's argument was based on unscientific reasoning.
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The evolution of that science was haphazard and often comically unscientific.
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The only problem is that it is inaccurate, unscientific, and harmful.
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Unscientific anti-vaccine movements leave us all more unsafe down the line.
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In both cases, critics complained that the basis for regulation was unscientific.
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By contrast, Greenpeace's public statements on GMOs tend to be startlingly unscientific.
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Here's an unscientific yet totally indisputable fact: We are all really tired.
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Obviously, that's an unscientific claim, but I think it's close to reality.
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But upon closer inspection, the variables involved are subjective and plainly unscientific.
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In fact, an unscientific head count suggests the players outnumber the spectators.
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A withdrawal "would not only be a disaster but completely unscientific," he said.
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It cites bullshit and unscientific statistics from PJ Media, a conservative blogging platform.
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From this largely unscientific observation, Nepom and his colleagues constructed a scientific study.
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It also evokes the same unscientific beliefs that have always held women back.
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Therefore, VICE Sports presents its Unscientific MLB Power Rankings for this week: 1.
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Rockets took off, and they wrote the most unscientific nonsense you can imagine.
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To find out, I recently put together an admittedly unscientific poll on Twitter.
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"It probably has this aura of being unscientific or whatever," Ms. Vardhana said.
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An unscientific survey suggests that the Americans are winning the battle of the boards.
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Mama's reasoning was unscientific but no less sound: The guns made her feel unsafe.
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Our methods were wholly unscientific, so please offer your thoughts in the comments below.
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After assembling our test devices, we put them through a series of unscientific tests.
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But if you call their work unscientific, you're sure to set off a nerve.
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The totally unscientific brain science lesson wasn't Carson's only blunder while addressing his employees.
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Me neither—until I discovered some very unscientific research from Australian statistician David Barry.
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They're unscientific because they're easy to rig: People can vote over and over again.
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That fact came shining through in an enlightening-if-unscientific new NBC News report.
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To put it simply, ICER's methodology for determining drug value is unscientific and discriminatory.
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The presumptive Republican nominee has taken an extreme and unscientific position on global warming.
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But one unscientific experiment already underway could turn out to be a useful guidepost.
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There's no reason to think that an unscientific poll would have the same value.
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But unproven, unscientific "cures" are a growth market — and debunkings often have little effect.
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Others have used forums and Facebook groups to peddle unscientific cures for COVID-19.
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My unscientific theory is that sleeping is contagious, and Shadow's main hobby is naps.
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In a letter to Gray, Darwin pointed out that this idea was thoroughly unscientific.
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I ran my own unscientific survey via social media for the purposes of this article.
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But now that you have, aren't you kind of pleased by the (very unscientific) answer?
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The last thing we need is a federal mandate that rubber-stamps unscientific populist notions.
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We demand our employers follow the precautionary principle, rather than the inadequate, unscientific CDC guidelines.
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Crude and unscientific evidence, but the hits for "linear" (for example) don't reveal comparable growth.
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It is unscientific, shaming and hurtful, and spreads misinformation about a natural, purposeful biologic process.
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Yet it's clear unscientific diet books aren't going away; they are a hugely lucrative enterprise.
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That indictment appeared to be based on an unscientific report by a conservative news site.
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In this case, unscientific information is causing a public health crisis that primarily harms children.
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Yet the bear-market label is based on a dangerously unscientific understanding of stock markets.
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How to up your GQ (gratefulness quotient) I'm currently conducting two completely unscientific thankfullness-boosting experiments.
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Goop has attracted plenty of detractors for trafficking in generally unscientific, at times even dangerous, advice.
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A broad and unscientific survey revealed five* kinds of reactions to Sanders and his new platform.
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Tell us who you think won the debate in PEOPLE's unscientific post-second Presidential debate poll.
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We conducted a highly unscientific survey of New Yorkers to gauge their opinions on sidewalk eating.
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Instead of "beacons of change," prosecutors remain obstinately mired in the unscientific and error-prone past.
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Morrison believes the answer lies in maternity care that is male dominated, unscientific, and often dangerous.
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Those efforts, in part, are an attempt to resurface lost queer history in an unscientific way.
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It was entirely unscientific in nature, and did not represent a diverse swath of the public.
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I think that much of Charles Murray's work is unscientific and has only helped fuel inequality.
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"Those claims are just as unscientific as the ones that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing," he said.
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Is it just modern-day quackery, a hankering for any life-prolonging quicksilver, however unscientific and unorthodox?
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She told me that she would never try anything so unscientific, no matter how desperate she was.
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But some questioned the selection of Dr. Oz, suggesting his pick would promote unscientific information about health.
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My own unscientific polling on Twitter also suggests people aren't bothered by the death of the jack.
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Alaska's program, intended to artificially inflate game populations, is unscientific, unsporting and defies traditional wildlife management principles.
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But investigators quickly decided — based on unscientific and outdated methods— that the fire was been started intentionally.
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An unscientific 1995 survey found that two in three viewers were in favor of the swimsuit portion.
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Let's hope that reasonable, scientific analysis prevails in this debate, and that it ultimately trumps unscientific speculation.
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He often invokes unscientific polls as examples of his strength, and mentions surveys that have questionable methodology.
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That's very unscientific; I'm not going to comb through 50,000 comments and try to figure that out.
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While there is no reliable polling on the measure, unscientific surveys suggest that the amendment can win.
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Remember this before you dig into this highly unscientific comparison: Baseball's regular season is 21 games long.
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The book is unscientific propaganda from authors with connections to the disinformation-machinery of the Heartland Institute.
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By my unscientific count, these gestures have only become more plentiful in the course of Hass's career.
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The results, while unscientific, offer a snapshot of military voting preferences, the Times said in a report.
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But for a rising number of students and specialists, the practice is extremely serious, if admittedly unscientific.
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Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, stood behind her — slamming the ban on transgender women competitors as "unscientific" and "discriminatory."
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Your columnist's unscientific Facebook survey uncovered a surprising degree of affection for Airbnb among both hosts and visitors.
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Lastly, if this humble blogger may dispense some unscientific personal advice, Christmas in Florida should always be canceled.
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Trump also declared victory in the debate, tweeting the results of unscientific online polls that showed him ahead.
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They sometimes do it together, in large numbers, especially at night (in unscientific terms, a noted party time).
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After posting satire about weed on their website in 2015, they were again accused of being inherently unscientific.
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In a supremely unscientific breakdown, we'd put it like this: It's not too metallic, but not too flat.
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Virginity tests are unscientific—women's physiologies vary a great deal, whether or not they have ever had sex.
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Social media users were quick to pounce on the unscientific poll, considering the site's unabashed pro-Trump coverage.
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Breaking the left-right-left pattern is a hard thing to do because if anything it seems unscientific.
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They argue that an alarming number of food studies are misleading, unscientific or manipulated to draw dubious conclusions.
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In a highly unscientific observation, men appeared to be generally more reluctant to hold a snake than women.
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When a friend suggested she visit an acupuncturist, Hall balked at the idea of such an unscientific approach.
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His entire premise was unscientific; for now, it is unthinkable that seas will rise so high so quickly.
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"To say that speculating about a multiverse is unscientific because you can't observe its other parts is like saying that it is unscientific to suppose that there are galaxies farther away than 100 billion light years, because in an expanding universe they can never be observed," he wrote in an email.
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" Think about that for a second: clinically proven to do something as unscientific as "gaining control over your body.
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And it was based on a kind of religious and unscientific Keynesianism, I think, of the Obama administration economists.
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He won the Clinton debates only in unscientific website polls, in which anyone could go and click a button.
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Based on a very unscientific survey of Vox moms, not a single one said they were using Johnson's Baby.
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A slew of unscientific online snap polls are painting Donald Trump as the winner of the first presidential debate.
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Based on an unscientific range of conversations over four days, young Britons seem to favor staying in the bloc.
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Its strategy, however, is not to show that theism is unscientific, as the "new atheists" have tended to do.
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He's referring, as usual, to unscientific polls on websites, which allow anyone to go and click for their favorite.
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We at Refinery29 are fans of solid food — and we're not buying the unscientific claims of juice-cleanse proselytizers.
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Before that happens, please check in with a red, white and blue edition of MLB's Unscientific Power Rankings. 221.
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A scathing attack on global health advice to eat less sugar as "unscientific" set off a storm of criticism.
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For the highly unscientific taste test, we served the meatballs in the New York Times newsroom on Friday afternoon.
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But another unscientific poll by the organization in 1995 found that two-thirds of respondents wanted it to stay.
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Off the clock, I follow an extremely unscientific metric that works great here: Do I want to like this?
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It's also unscientific and arbitrary to subject genetic engineering to more regulatory scrutiny than those created with others methods.
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My own highly unscientific poll found enormous enthusiasm for staying in touch with far-flung grandchildren through digital platforms.
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Along with all other kinds of essentialist thinking, the scientific establishment routinely warns against biological essentialism as fundamentally unscientific.
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I've done some very unscientific polling, and it turns out a lot of people share my contempt for yellow Skittles.
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Through forty-nine professional bouts Marciano was made to look clumsy, unscientific, too small, too slow, too easy to cut.
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The unscientific, unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban that Murphy cosponsored is known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
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But according to the recent bioethics report, Turner found that these pay-to-participate studies are poorly designed and unscientific.
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It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
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I am skeptical of the value of this clock, which appears to me an unscientific exercise in freaking people out.
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The New York Times Magazine asks a selection of its readers offbeat questions, but each edition discloses the unscientific methodology.
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Through it, one views the world as if from within a cave; and the world is more spectacular and unscientific.
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Those who say that saving someone's life with naloxone will only foster addiction are being unscientific, inhumane and ill informed.
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Even Simonsohn, who made clear his support for Carney's decision, thought the letter had a strangely unscientific vehemence to it.
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Together, they form an entirely unscientific experiment that asks: What does amateur photography look like today versus 68 years ago?
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But at the risk of sounding incurious or unscientific, there are some questions that I'm not sure I want answered.
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Many supporters of same-sex marriage deride the postal vote as a costly, "irregular and unscientific" gauge of public opinion.
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I've also seen unscientific online polls conducted by other media outlets that show some support for her to step down.
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A Disneyland spokesperson called the report "inaccurate and unscientific" at the time, accusing it of being politically motivated by unions.
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When faced with bad poll numbers, Republican leaders have responded by citing crowd sizes, "momentum" and other highly unscientific metrics.
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But as unscientific as this might seem, I believe that the collection of cells formed at conception is a person.
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BuzzFeed Books sent out an (unscientific) survey to librarians back in September, asking about their jobs, projects, pet peeves, and more.
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"It makes the larger players nervous," said an industry executive, calling the discourse on "junk food" in India discriminatory and unscientific.
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In other words, his assertions are entirely unscientific—which naturally matters little to a president with a documented aversion to science.
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Using Hannity, Alex Jones, and Matt Drudge, the campaign widely circulated highly unscientific online polls saying that Trump won the debate.
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So instead of taking his word for it, I decided to do a 100 percent unscientific taste test to find out.
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Its actions should be evidence-based, not faith-based, and this decidedly unscientific language should be eliminated from its strategic plan.
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I do, however, have a completely unscientific theory about the outpouring of writing (call it "Post-Trumpian Graphomania") that has followed.
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If campaign placards, stickers and other paraphernalia served as a sort of unscientific straw poll, Mr. Cruz was outpacing his rivals.
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Trump took a resounding 22019 percent of the more than 50,000 votes cast by late Sunday morning in the unscientific poll.
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Alternative healing methods like herbal supplements, acupuncture, and meditation are often looked down upon in the U.S. as hokey and unscientific.
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Although, this perhaps makes him the most at home in the One Tree Hill universe; he poetically suits its unscientific nature.
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Amazon's guidelines don't mention medical misinformation, but the company has previously taken down books that make unscientific or harmful medical claims.
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To my unscientific mind, researching the diffraction of light waves or photopic versus scotopic vision, is like reading a foreign language.
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Some scientists and other thinkers have argued that the idea of the landscape is unscientific, since it cannot be tested directly.
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"These ideas are based on absolutely unscientific mythology and scripture," complains a researcher who declined to be named, fearing funding cuts.
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Out of more than 643,000 responses to our (unscientific) poll, four clear front-runners emerged, one far ahead of the rest.
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Given our collective enthusiasm at identifying ourselves through unscientific, ambiguous ways, brands are relying on zodiac imagery to sell their products.
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"It is unscientific to draw a line around a region and say it is off-limits for investment," Ms. Myatt said.
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But reproductive health advocates say pregnant people around the country are essentially becoming test subjects in an unscientific and unethical experiment.
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Through this unscientific exercise, I found that many buyers knew that advanced safety technology is available now even in affordable cars.
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Back in September, BuzzFeed Books sent out an unscientific survey to librarians, asking them about their jobs, projects, pet peeves, and more.
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So we've put together a completely unscientific survey asking all of the questions we laypeople are wondering — about secrets, frustrations, trends, etc.
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In 19993, the justices invalidated the state's rigid, unscientific rule that skirted the court's clear 2002 ban on executing intellectually disabled people.
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"The conference's impact on governance and macroeconomic performance is an untested and unscientific observation," ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said in a statement.
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I went on to measure support (in an unscientific way) for a few of the other top tier candidates, such as Sen.
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After it began pulling books pushing "toxic autism cures," Amazon this month started removing unscientific documentaries about vaccines from its streaming service.
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Meanwhile, Amazon has looked to remove books promoting an unscientific connection made between vaccines and autism, and anti-vaccine documentaries like Vaxxed.
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So really what I'm trying to say is that, well, Groundhog Day is completely unscientific, but isn't as crazy as it seems.
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Research has shown time and time again that treating addiction as a crime or a moral failing is ineffective, unscientific, and inhumane.
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As a Board Certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist, I see first hand that pregnant women are subjected to multiple unscientific physician and hospital protocols.
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Trump is going on unscientific online polls, which don't have any controls to make sure they are actually representative of American voters.
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Everyone seems to have their own completely speculative and unscientific ideas about the target of Turner's ire — and we are no exception!
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What we heard was that, while there's a lot of parenting guidance out there, much of it is unscientific, unvetted and unrealistic.
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A quick, unscientific survey of several products of extensive Catholic education drew blank stares when the subject of fetal rabbits came up.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled Japan's whaling plan was unscientific, forcing it to call off the 2014-2015 hunt.
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Not only is it unscientific; it's gratuitous, and Pinker ends up undermining his own arguments with a tendency to overstate his case.
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The Economist's unscientific survey has identified 2105 with notably climate-friendly dispositions, and a combined net worth of $22bn (see chart 22016).
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In the beginning, the roster of this professional fight club circuit was made up of unscientific bouncer types like David "Tank" Abbott.
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Twitter polls are inherently unscientific and these only ad a few hundred people responding, which makes them prone to manipulation or bias.
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"Abortion reversal is unproven, unscientific, and potentially unsafe," Tam Nickerson-Scott, clinic operations director at Preterm, Ohio's largest abortion provider, told Vox.
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But "super blood wolf moon" is a name that somehow combines sensationalism, doomsday conspiracies, and botched Native American culture into one unscientific name.
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Here are our unscientific findings: Each time, we find that we have many roses and buds and usually only one thorn to share.
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Doctors learn about new procedures from colleagues, specialty society meetings, and information provided by medical device companies — a potentially arbitrary and unscientific process.
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Time and again, players and coaches described their attitude toward the game as "undisciplined," by which they mean it is improvised and unscientific.
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Orig223n offers genetics-based assessments of fitness, mental health, skin, nutrition and even—obviously unscientific—which superpower you are most likely to have.
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His analysis was unscientific—the data set was nothing more than his own favourite jokes—but his conclusion rings at least true-ish.
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"I have taken an unscientific survey among my colleagues, whom you reference, about whether I should resign," Huntsman wrote in response to Gehrke.
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So, this is what the bottom of a swamp looks like: Nervous scientists and political appointees with questionable experience and dangerously unscientific views.
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Judging by my entirely unscientific, observational survey of my fellow commuters and coworkers this past week, though, it appears we need another reminder.
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"[Withdrawing] would not only be a disaster but completely unscientific," added Sánchez Sorondo, who is head of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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One unscientific survey from a lingerie company in 2016 found that 52% of people said they didn't have sex on their wedding night.
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a piece in the overall energy puzzle, but for too many years, unscientific delays have prevented its construction.
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In typical Trump fashion, though, he brags about the results of a few unscientific online polls showing he "won" the night: Thank you!
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Committee members have also been accused of intimidating and harassing scientists, and promoting unscientific views on subjects ranging from industrial pollution to evolution.
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The threshold may be unscientific, but the idea of treating one person's gains the same as another person's income at least has simplicity.
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But as my sardonic friend had noticed, and my own highly unscientific survey confirms, a number of our contemporaries deem those somehow inadequate.
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But the Liberals, being pro-business and pro-growth, reject the Greens' demands as ideological, even unscientific, and in the end self-defeating.
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Online anonymous message boards (and their fake or unscientific news) substitute for real conversations with friends and family members who had similar experiences.
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The rhetoric about sexual assault observed in Weinstein's legal team's PowerPoint represents an unscientific, intentional misunderstanding of the breadth of sexual assault responses.
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Worst of all, it appears to be aimed at appeasing Democrats in Congress who have been fighting an ongoing, unscientific battle against vaping.
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In Flat Earth — No Trolls (22,538 members), members shared unscientific evidence that the world was indeed flat and mocked "globers" who claimed otherwise.
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The Phiten fad may be on the downswing, but other products that take advantage of our unscientific impulses are sure to take its place.
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These are not the actions of an agency interested in science or one that has any moral standing to dismiss criticisms of being unscientific.
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In 2015, an unscientific survey of literature and art professors found that only 12 percent gave regular trigger warnings, and 45 percent opposed them.
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Styles playfully scolded the crowd members who were skipping exams to see the show, which, from my unscientific polling, seemed to be about 75%.
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Nissen said that statins have developed a "bad reputation with the public," largely due to websites that peddle scary and unscientific claims about statins.
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So according to my completely unscientific experiment, wearing the Physiclo pants produced not only a higher heart rate but more of a calorie burn!
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So please enjoy our wildly unscientific test of Alexa's abilities, as we see how many questions it can answer before our toast is done.
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With such great progress HIV screening, the restrictions on men who have had sex with men is not only discriminatory but also highly unscientific.
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Purveyor of the wacky and questionable, Goop, has agreed to pay $145,000 to settle allegations it made unscientific claims on three of its products.
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So, we had a quick (unscientific) chat with three US weed vapers to find out why vaping is their preferred method of herb consumption.
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Just take an unscientific scan of Fox News, the RNC, and Trumpland, and it's pretty clear that this is a look new Republicans prefer.
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Forty-nine percent of 23,118 people who responded to an unscientific CNBC online survey this week said they expect bitcoin to rise above $10,000.
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An unscientific analysis of online reactions seems to show women's reactions to the spot are overwhelmingly positive, which Gillette's brand team no doubt predicted.
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To illuminate some of the gaps in existing rankings of bad airports, The Economist conducted an unscientific, anecdotal poll of its globe-trotting correspondents.
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The reviewer was critical, arguing that Jung's methods were unscientific; Jung himself had, in fact, admitted that he based his types only on conjecture.
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Yesterday Crowdfunding site Indiegogo said it would no longer allow anti-vaccine fundraisers or similarly unscientific, so-called "health campaigns", to use its platform.
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The obvious problem here is that this is an unscientific internet poll, which can be easily gamed by a community that often games polls.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle and wellness site Goop has promised to stop making unscientific claims about the benefits of sticking stone eggs in one's vagina.
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Rittenhouse said he was "saddened" by the overuse of CBD in different products, as well as the unscientific claims about the substance's healing properties.
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A highly unscientific statistic I just made up shows that 83 percent of women over age 60 who go gray do not regret it.
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I find it amusing to have something that's completely unscientific, to remind myself I'm the black sheep of the family and not a scientist.
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We asked parents, via an unscientific survey, to tell us where they stand on the subject of youth tackle football and heard from dozens.
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"The Doomsday Clock unscientific," Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and former Bulletin board member, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday.
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Two separate (albeit seemingly very unscientific) polls have found that America's choice when it comes to the chewy treats is also strawberry and cherry.
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Players under contract with a racket company have limited choices, but even when they are free of commercial concerns, the process is typically unscientific.
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I don't know if my very unscientific polling among female voters will hold up in November, but I see no reason why it shouldn't.
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The arguments against women entering the sanctum sanctorum were outrageously unscientific—they claimed that the divine rays in that area are hurtful to women.
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But Trump didn't win the second debate, just as he didn't win the first, and again he resorted to citing some unscientific online polls.
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An entirely unscientific survey of revelers who were asked about the dangers of contracting Zika through unprotected sex yielded expressions that blended ridicule with disbelief.
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So in no particular order, we present to you the WIRED Science Desk's completely unscientific picks for best science and science-fiction writing of 2016.
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But the one consistency I found in my (admittedly unscientific) experiments is: They kick in way faster than most products, and are significantly more intense.
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So when they serve on advisory committees, the grant recipients are often only too willing to rubber stamp the agency's unwise, unscientific and excessive regulation.
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Back in September, BuzzFeed Books sent out an unscientific survey to librarians, asking them about their jobs, projects, pet peeves — and recent books they've loved.
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They were distressed by the fact that so many laypeople hold on to completely unscientific ideas or have a crude view of how science works.
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At the time, people close to him had just been diagnosed with cancer, and well-meaning friends were sending unscientific health information they found online.
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But according to a brief unscientific survey of the Mashable offices, it appears that approximately no one outside the cryptocurrency loop knows what Ethereum is.
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As a result, I've decided to cover this topic in a high-level (and no doubt relatively unscientific!) way to see what I could discover.
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I was there to see if my totally unscientific approach to buying expensive stuff that makes you happy also applies to the world of tea.
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It's my unscientific measurement of just how good things are for small businesses, which also measures how good things are for the economy as well.
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"None of us really have the opportunity to ask 'the designer' about this," adds Berardi, and those kinds of questions are loaded and unscientific anyway.
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While alchemy is today considered unscientific, several alchemy techniques were precursors to modern chemical engineering—and Medieval DIY alchemists were often successful forgers and counterfeiters.
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You need an expiration date, even an unscientific one made up by a horny sex blogger, to remind yourself that it will be over, eventually.
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The Trump administration may not be advocating that women stock up on aspirin to avoid pregnancy, but its priorities are nearly as backward and unscientific.
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Human rights groups have previously opposed "virginity tests" on Indonesian women seeking to join the police or military, saying the practice was unscientific and degrading.
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Measures by the United States and others to curb visitors from China have offended Beijing, which says they are an unscientific, fear-based over-reaction.
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America says this attitude is unscientific and actually a form of protectionism, designed to shield poultry producers in the EU from imports of cheaper American chickens.
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But yet another new study shows a dark side of the trend: Millions of dollars funneled to ludicrous, unscientific treatments for life-threatening diseases like cancer.
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When Lexington conducted an unscientific straw poll of prominent Democrats in Washington this week, they were strikingly cautious about declaring the Vermont senator a national champion.
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And, based on an unscientific analysis of photos that show her occasional dark roots, she also seems to be familiar with the magic of hair dye.
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While these findings might be unexpected, or at the very least unscientific, it's important to remember that you can't make any assumptions about people's sexual preferences.
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"There is a lack of historical data for many products, so the pricing process is unscientific," the regulator said in a question and answer with journalists.
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An unscientific Twitter poll found 81 percent of people either sprint as fast as they can or take a look when they hear there's free food.
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Survey results are inherently unscientific because not all airlines participate, and The Post and Courier said supplier issues outside Boeing's control could have skewed the results.
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An unscientific survey released today from the cybersecurity firm Pwnie Express suggests as few as 31% of companies involve their cybersecurity personnel in all device purchases.
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And being afraid of food with no real reason is unscientific — part of the dangerous trend of anti-intellectualism that we confront in many places today.
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I received responses from more than 60 families, and though the survey was unscientific, the answers have already changed how we manage tech at my house.
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More than 800,000 Americans have needlessly suffered humiliation, ostracism, banishment re-incarceration and civil commitment thanks to a judicial opinion grounded in an unsourced, unscientific study.
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But in 2011, Berger said, a top member of the NSCA wrote an "unscientific, manufactured hit piece" about how CrossFit could hurt members of the armed forces.
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The memo also reportedly stated that any disputes over a person's sex would be clarified using genetic testing, a claim that scientists say is unscientific and unethical.
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After running several personal, highly unscientific trials of layering serums, lotions, and oils, my skin was as dull and my pores as clogged as they'd ever been.
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I can't say with certainty how hard these projects are to build, but my very unscientific guess would be that they only take a couple of hours.
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Likewise, many people think their smartphones have enlarged their thumbs by as much as 15 percent, according to (an admittedly unscientific survey) by Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica.
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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez is blasting President Trump's reversal of Obama-era climate change efforts, calling the move unscientific and terrible for the environment.
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In an unscientific survey carried out by CNBC this week, nearly half of the more than 23,000 people who voted said bitcoin is heading to over $10,000.
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While some prominent Democrats, such as Robert Kennedy Jr., have promoted unscientific claims that vaccines damage children, Republican elected officials have been more likely to be skeptical.
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Yet an unscientific survey of several Bergdorf's saleswomen, nearby security guards and a pedicab operator found that the campaign had not brought much disturbance to the avenue.
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In 2016, for instance, he cited unscientific polls on-air after a Fox News executive told network producers that they did not meet the company's editorial standards.
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The commission found that Retzlaff — then known as Patricia Almanza — made numerous speculative or unscientific assertions at Bryan's 1989 trial, some of which bolstered the prosecution's case.
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According to an unscientific analysis by Reuters Breakingviews of some three dozen companies that have snubbed suitors over the past decade, roughly half made the right call.
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In an unscientific online survey of Mr. Mélenchon's supporters conducted by his party, only 34.8 percent said they would vote for Mr. Macron against Ms. Le Pen.
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So some conclusions of these unscientific Twitter poll results: Any media company needs to understand its Weekly Attention Score and whether it's trending in the right direction.
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A middle option would be to use similar AI and human screening practices but to label the suspect unscientific content much the same way malware is labeled.
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While it's tempting to buy into whatever diet someone on the internet said worked for them, Mikhaila just one person with a very specific, rigid, and unscientific diet.
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A slew of unscientific online snap polls are painting Donald Trump as the winner of the first presidential debate Monday night, while others contend Hillary Clinton emerged victorious.
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According to my very scientific Twitter poll (read: completely unscientific), people have a lot of feelings about email sign-offs, and loathe certain ones for no apparent reason.
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We had to use our government funding for beer, so it's back to the ten most powerful forces in Major League Baseball in the weekly unscientific ranking. 1.
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Mexico ranked 6th in this very unscientific poll of CNN readers who took part in our interactive feature on the 10 biggest global challenges facing the next President.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health experts have condemned U.S. rapper T.I. for subjecting his teenaged daughter to an annual virginity test, saying the practice was harmful and unscientific.
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Forty-nine percent of the 23,118 people who voted in an unscientific survey last week about the direction of the bitcoin price, said it was heading above $10,000.
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I would say roughly 60 percent of the people I spoke to in my (highly unscientific) poll said if the election were held today, they'd vote for Clinton.
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This week, we decided to conduct an unscientific experiment: We grabbed a digital thermometer, threw on some shorts and descended to some of the city's busiest subway stations.
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Our highly unscientific ranking formula has to do with how much the wigs make us laugh and how appropriate we think they are for the character underneath them.
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So we rounded up eight of the craziest, most unscientific, highly sexist myths about women's health from the 1700s, 1800s, and even a dash of the early 1900s.
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A close look at these cases reveals how experts in fields like hair analysis, bite marks and DNA analysis have used exaggerated statistical claims to bolster unscientific assertions.
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Gianna Jimenez, a sophomore studying molecular biology, said she and her peers were disturbed by the spread of unscientific theories, such as the notion that vaccines cause autism.
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So bear all of this in mind as you read my unscientific-but-honest gut reactions to all of these shoes; listed in alphabetical order by brand name.
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Nobody's counting, but by my unscientific estimate almost everything that became instantly popular online in the last decade turned out to be problematic in one way or another.
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To add an admittedly highly unscientific bit of kindling to the fire, here's a tweet that called on non-journalists to respond if they cared about our President's taxes.
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An unscientific survey of other new moms who work at Refinery29 revealed that they didn't know this kind of expensive service was an option until they were pregnant, either.
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A final (thoroughly unscientific) signifier that this list exhibits an age divide is the fact that nearly every cereal-consuming millennial I showed it to took issue with it.
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It's such a controversial subject that the the moderators of the /r/Physics subreddit deleted their thread with our post out of a conviction that the EmDrive is unscientific.
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While there have been numerous prior studies (both scholarly and unscientific) on penis size, the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) published one of the girthiest analyses to date.
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Mr Milonov is known for his role in criminalising "homosexual propaganda directed toward minors" in 2013 and has now taken issue with the EUSP's "unscientific" approach towards LGBT communities.
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The event was ultimately canceled, but the incident demonstrated the degree to which unscientific, and even pseudoscientific, ideas are propagating among Indian politicians, policymakers, and the public in general.
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We lost at least 34 celebrities by our admittedly unscientific count, which factor in such Oscar- and Grammy-winning celebs such as Debbie Reynolds who appear in multiple categories.
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She told Broadly that the freeze-frame policy is antiquated and unscientific—akin to refusing to provide a diabetic with insulin if he wasn't prescribed it before entering prison.
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It has a temperature of minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (250 degrees Kelvin), which, in unscientific terms, makes it one of the coldest masses of its type found in space.
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Many Australians deride the postal vote as a costly, "irregular and unscientific" gauge of the nation's readiness to embrace same-sex marriage that would not itself change any law.
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That unscientific approach presents problems, said Glenn Engstrom, the director of the National Road Research Alliance, which conducts pavement research at MnROAD, the Minnesota transportation department's asphalt test track.
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So, tapping into the expertise of The Verge's staff, and using a completely unscientific non-algorithmic approach, we came up with a list of great Valentine's Day gift ideas.
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The second option is for each company to moderate its own content and create clear mechanisms to warn users when they encounter unscientific content that could potentially be harmful.
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Lobbying against agricultural breeding techniques creates an overly stringent, unscientific regulatory atmosphere that carves a clear path for big corporations and prevents these kinds of benefits from reaching consumers.
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THE pundits have had their say, and the unscientific verdict is in: Super Bowl LI, barely a week in the rearview mirror, was the bestchampionshipgamein thehistory of the NationalFootballLeague (NFL).
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And when last month, a fourth person genetically engineered themselves, injecting themselves with a vaccine meant to suppress HIV on Facebook Live, Zayner shook his head at the unscientific approach.
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The I.O.C. used to conduct gender verification tests at the Olympics, but those chromosome-based screenings were dropped before the 2000 Sydney Games because they were deemed unscientific and unethical.
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For a group of people so data-driven, the obsession over unscientific variations of culture fit can become a quick way to exclude different types of people for scant reasons.
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But a recent, fairly unscientific test by the BBC, pit the night vision skills of a dog against a cat in an attempt to demonstrate which had the upper paw.
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Finally, we must admit that scientists are just people and accordingly may sometimes betray certain cognitive "blind spots" that prevent them from realizing the unscientific status of their own ideas.
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The IOC used to conduct gender verification tests at the Olympics, but those chromosome-based screenings were dropped before the 2000 Sydney Games because they were deemed unscientific and unethical.
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Donald Trump has railed against polls throughout this campaign, repeatedly and falsely claiming they are "rigged" against him—while also touting unscientific online polls when they reflect favorably on him.
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"Hey, this is Emma from Broadly," I texted one 16-year-old from Colorado, wanting to get a good sample of youth for my unscientific investigation into pot's cool factor.
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Extrapolating anything else from Elon's Twitter or from the companies' choice to not participate in an unscientific opt-in diversity survey would be pretty specious and misleading to your readers.
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In this account, told in a series of non-chronological vignettes, Raffel argues that Couney deserves recognition, despite the uneasy voyeurism of his for-profit enterprise and its unscientific method.
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"The study has provided a definitive scientific basis to put a stop to unscientific accounts of the skeleton's true human nature and accord it the respect it deserves," he said.
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And in a very unscientific poll, I asked ten people at the VICE office if they'd been punched in the face, and 100 percent said they had at least once.
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That's not to say that Graeber's argument is not without merit — in my own unscientific research, I encountered a few friends who said that their jobs fit his description perfectly.
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"I think the less said about this irregular and unscientific polling, the better," Michael Kirby, a former High Court judge, told Radio National, an arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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My unscientific conclusion is that the Washington metro area has the highest per-capita concentration of Twitter users whose profile photo is a shot of them appearing on cable news.
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Often they choose a slightly higher cutoff than the expected turnout, on the assumption that poll respondents are likelier than nonrespondents to vote — but exactly how much likelier is somewhat unscientific.
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On the bright side, putting "I write a Jake Gyllenhaal newsletter" in my Tinder bio, according to my unscientific data analysis, resulted in a 503 percent increase in my Tinder messages.
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Readers of his constantly whirring Twitter account and watchers of the sympathetic hosts on Fox News were told that Mr Trump had been anointed the winner by several unscientific online surveys.
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This week, as Pyongyang issued threats to launch missiles at Guam, Trump retweeted a series of messages that criticized Obama, including an unscientific Twitter poll that had been inactive for days.
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These related stories will show in a new "related news for [topic x]" section in the Now on Tap pop-up and in my unscientific tests, this generally worked pretty well.
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In it, I conducted a brief and unscientific study that found a pattern following McAfee's Twitter promotions of altcoins, not ICOs: a huge price spike quickly followed by a big crash.
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The president did not provide any evidence for the claim, which appeared to originate from an unscientific experiment at PJ Media that was promoted by conservative news aggregator The Drudge Report.
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However, some are, and my unscientific sense is that billionaires are more likely than the rest of us to exhibit bad judgment warped by runaway egos, especially in the political sphere.
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Amazon is no longer selling books that promote unscientific methods to "cure" children of autism, like ingesting or bathing in a potentially toxic form of bleach, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
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An unscientific survey of drivers in two strip mall parking lots in suburban New Jersey found many self-proclaimed careful drivers who cheered the idea of cutting down on distracted driving.
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North Koreans continued to collect remains on their own, but were asked to stop because the US considered their methods of collection, which included the co-mingling of remains, as unscientific.
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They make outdated and unscientific arguments, void of facts, because they cannot defend the merits of their policy preferences year after year as our forests and homes burn to the ground.
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In addition to the unscientific myths about hormonal women being best suited for the home and hearth, what else has propelled this broader misinterpretation about what "mommy brain" is and isn't?
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After a report was published in WIRED last year, Amazon confirmed to news outlets that it removed several books about vaccines and unscientific autism "cures," though it declined to specify why.
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But even those supposed markers of health are hardly neutral—the idea that weight loss, for example, is inherently healthy is unscientific at best, and fat-phobic and dangerous at worst.
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High-end laptop Potential Savings: $500 - $800 Our unscientific estimate shows that 99% of all college students use their laptop for little more than word processing, Wikipedia-ing, and watching YouTube.
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Nothing in the milieu where I grew up, in New Jersey in the eighties and early nineties, contradicted the idea I formed of religion as something unnecessary, unscientific, provincial—essentially, uncool.
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This is backed up by the very unscientific testing at GQ of three brands that use silver: They all stunk to varying degrees after use but freshened right up after the wash.
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Like any country, Japan has thousands of ghost stories born from superstition and generations of unscientific early history, but many Japanese spooks are a lot more pragmatic than you might find elsewhere.
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Earlier in the day, Cruz won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C. That poll is unscientific, but generally considered a worthwhile measure of grassroots conservative support.
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In an admittedly unscientific investigation, I resorted to Zhihu, a Chinese equivalent of Quora, several other internet forums and readers' comments in the Chinese media to try and understand Mr. Trump's appeal.
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I embarked on my own somewhat (very) unscientific survey and spoke to several other anxiety sufferers about their sleep, and was relieved to discover their experiences were nearly identical to my own.
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For example, the U.S. government promoted the unscientific notion that obesity and heart disease were linked to the consumption of cholesterol and fats when the "Food Guide Pyramid" was introduced in 85033.
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My completely unscientific ranking of all the food I cooked on this grill: [gallery ids="1680115,220,2850,2700,250,28,21,8503,2850,21700,2850,1680148"] Everything from chicken to every cut of pork to every sort of vegetable comes out nearly perfectly.
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An unscientific survey that BuzzFeed News conducted showed that of the most memorable times that respondents had been ghosted, a little more than half of them said they'd originally met that person online.
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China is the number two international priority, according to a very unscientific poll of CNN readers who took part in our interactive feature on the 10 biggest global challenges facing the next President.
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To flesh it out, The Economist conducted its own (admittedly unscientific) poll of 90 migrants between the ages of 18 and 33 in six areas of Beijing and Guangzhou, a large southern city.
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Just a month after settling a consumer protection case in California over unscientific claims, Goop has been reported to two regulators in the UK — the National Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Authority.
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The top requests, based on an unscientific scan of 's replies: We at Recode don't like to toot our own horn, but we may have suggested something similar to Twitter back in October.
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The book is a strange paleo-future, unscientific pitch that at times bears more resemblance to an even more offbeat take on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than a medical journal.
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If the FDA wants to end its discrimination, it needs to remove these unscientific regulations and instead use a more comprehensive screening process that targets risky sexual behavior, such as not using condoms.
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Amazon removed two books that promote unscientific autism "cures" after Wired published a report earlier this week highlighting books on the site that encourage parents to have their children consume potentially toxic chemicals.
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I'm not exactly surprised that celebrity fitness person Tracy Anderson's recent interview with Well+Good consisted almost entirely of body-shaming, fear-mongering, and unscientific "facts" about fitness — that's sort of her brand.
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In an unscientific survey along San Francisco's Market Street one night last week, most cyclists had front lights and weak red reflectors on the back (as required by law), but no side lights.
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Unfortunately, Trump seems to hold some rather unscientific views on wind turbines, including that they are a disaster for America's bald eagle population, and that they're sending massive amounts of steel into the atmosphere.
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Back in August when I checked in with the finance community, industry professionals were starting to lean towards casting a Clinton vote in November (60 percent of the people in my highly unscientific poll).
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Libya isn't a top priority -- it ranked dead last in a very unscientific poll of CNN readers who took part in our interactive feature on the 10 biggest global challenges facing the next President.
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One quick, unscientific question can determine whether or not a pair of leggings is actually good at wicking sweat: Do they leave a butt-shaped sweat mark stamped on your seat after a workout?
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By means of an unscientific longitudinal survey of Muslim households I have conducted since childhood, I have observed a greater than zero quantity of wines and spirits sitting in cabinets and even on mantles.
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The doctor, Harold N. Bornstein of Manhattan, concluded that Mr. Trump, if victorious, "will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency" — a claim that was widely mocked as unprovable and unscientific. Mrs.
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When 1m people in Hong Kong signed a petition against the construction of a nuclear plant nearby, a Chinese minister shut down their complaints by stating that "unscientific objections" would not stop the project.
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In my entirely unscientific research, this is the way that some people in Los Angeles — you know, the clichéd touchy feely types the city has always been associated with — seem to greet each other.
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Eventually, the rise of the sea does contributes to global warming through a cascading effect, but this absolutely illiterate and unscientific page is so questionable, I'm surprised that you would even allow its publication.
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By my unscientific count, around 80 percent of the people in attendance were middle-aged men who looked like a computer model based on the average of every single one of my friends' dads.
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In my very unscientific testing of the heart rate sensor during a couple of spin classes where I compared the Ionic's wrist reading to a reading from a chest strap, I did notice some discrepancies.
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Think about it this way: People mock anti-vaxxers for unscientific thinking and putting everyone else at risk with their bizarre refusal to take advantage of amazingly safe and effective ways to prevent horrific diseases.
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Goop, the wellness newsletter-turned-media and e-commerce company founded a decade ago by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, gets plenty of grief for its highly unscientific advice around vaginal steaming and the dangers of bras.
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A big one -- Syria was the top international priority according to a very unscientific poll of CNN readers who took part in our interactive feature on the 10 biggest global challenges facing the next President.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 26 (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) lashed out at debt rating agencies on Saturday, calling their references to political risk in recent reviews of the country as mischievous and unscientific.
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They say that highlighting added sugar on labels is unscientific, and that the sugar that occurs naturally in foods like fruits and vegetables is essentially no different than the sugar commonly added to packaged foods.
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Human Rights Watch blasted the tests as "part of a broader pattern of abuses of women and girls" in the country, and called on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to abolish the "degrading and unscientific" practice.
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Based on what is an admittedly unscientific survey, in a report released this week, Mr. Lander's office found that the account sent out tweets about 479 signal failures of all sizes from December through February.
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With the exception of DNA evidence (which emerged from biology, not criminology), forensic tests are laughably unscientific; no independent entity exists to establish that such tests are reliable before their results are admissible as evidence.
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Some reports have suggested the president was referring to an unscientific report by conservative news website PJ Media, which claimed that 96 percent of Google search results for the word "Trump" showed left-leaning publications.
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That one was written by the now infamous James Damore, an engineer who wrote a 10,000-word, unscientific memo attempting to argue that women are naturally less disposed to be good engineers compared to men.
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As unscientific as it is, Trump's talking point was useful for him on two fronts, as it allowed him to attack a blue state in which he's unpopular while downplaying the impacts of climate change.
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Trump, however, is not only pretending that he was right all along, but now he's going even further and falsely claiming California officials were enlightened by and acted upon his unscientific analysis of the fires.
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"I think the bottom line is that we hope any anti-regulatory rule-making should be so unscientific ... almost any federal judge should see through the Trump administration maneuvering," said Pat Gallagher, a Sierra Club lawyer.
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In addition, unproven vaccine "alternatives" are being heavily marketed for financial gain and entirely unscientific studies virally reproduced -- often within echo chambers, created by closed groups and selective news feeds, where they are difficult to refute.
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As for Herbst, according to my very small and unscientific polling at least, odds are good for her, as well: Bob and Judy Parmalee nod their heads yes when I ask: "Mhmm, no complaints," Bob says.
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The feeling inspired CNBC to look at a handful of cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Hong Kong) to see which offers the best bang for the buck — through a highly unscientific experiment.
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Cosmetic gynecology seems to be a similar mixture — but thanks to a toxic combination of entrenched sexism and continued dismissal of women's sexual concerns, even the reconstructive procedures are still deemed frivolous, unscientific, and ironically, misogynistic.
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"I think the very notion that it's healthier to shop at Walmart or the ABC Store than an open-air farmers market, I think it's unfair, it's unjust and it's very unscientific and reprehensible," Salatin said.
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Eighteen months later, as the special House election between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone looms, campaign signs have sprouted in many more yards and Lamb is definitely leading in my very unscientific sign poll.
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A quick (and extremely unscientific) poll of Verge staffers revealed that some Switch owners have reported multiple controllers encountering the issue, while others have never experienced it, which seems to be mirrored by reports around the internet.
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The TSA claims the addition of all electronic devices larger than a cell phone (a very broad, unscientific classification of products) is a "simple step" to give TSA officers a clearer look at the X-rayed images.
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Russia is the number three international priority (behind Syria and China), according to a very unscientific poll of CNN readers who took part in our interactive feature on the 10 biggest global challenges facing the next President.
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The vast majority of Rio residents, from my admittedly unscientific survey, are like Macedo: perfectly willing to play host and hope for the best, even if, deep down, they know that they have seen this show before.
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If gender is defined solely by birth genitalia, non-discrimination protections will vanish for TGNC people—everyone who doesn't fit neatly into the inadequate boxes of "male" and "female" (as determined under the Trump administration's unscientific metric).
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Spielberg isn't wholly to blame for wanting to give his raptors an unscientific tongue: In the "Jurassic Park" book upon which the movie is based, author Michael Crichton describes a Tyrannosaurus rex as having a forked tongue.
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Some would point to Kuhn's scientific paradigms and argue that medicine wasn't ready for such a shift in thinking, others that it reflects the entirely unscientific nature of premodern medicine and the blinkered self-confidence of doctors.
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Planets must be round due to their own gravity, they must orbit the Sun, and they must "clear their neighborhood," a pretty unscientific phrase that basically just means that they're the dominant gravitational body in their orbit.
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That unscientific method picked up the voters taking second looks at Sanders but found more enthusiasm for Klobuchar than measured here; she gets crowds in the hundreds but is still lagging as voters' top, locked-in choice.
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And she's right that evaluating teachers by their students' scores on those tests is unscientific — not supported by evidence — as well as deeply unfair, given the many aspects of students' lives over which teachers have no control.
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Our unscientific theory: In the '90s, genuinely cool women like Drew Barrymore and Janet Jackson successfully worked pencil-thin brows, which led to a generation of teens hacking away at their own with whatever tool was to hand.
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A brief, unscientific survey at Newark and Atlanta airports between legs of a flight to Iowa the other day revealed as many different permutations of Buttigieg as there were travelers willing to answer questions at a boarding gate.
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With such a skewed sample, it's impossible to take the results seriously — it turns into a contest over which online community is most enthusiastic about winning unscientific polls, not how US voters feel about who won the debate.
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It's a top-of-mind question since President Donald Trump accused Google on Tuesday of prioritizing negative coverage from left-leaning outlets, an indictment that appeared to be based on an unscientific report by a conservative news site.
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To deliver on these arbitrary and unscientific goals, ICAO in 2016 adopted the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), which will eventually require airlines operating certain international flights to purchase emissions offsets and use more biofuels.
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Even the Heimlich maneuver, when he first proposed it, was suspect — an unscientific and possibly unsafe stunt that might be too difficult for laymen to perform and might even cause internal injuries or broken bones in a choking victim.
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In his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments , Søren Kierkegaard tells a parable: A man escapes from a mental institution and into town, but he worries that he'll be returned to his cell if he's discovered to be mad.
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However, in emails from October 2014 sent to state officials and released as part of a Freedom of Information request filed by Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, public health specialists immediately questioned the quarantines as unscientific, unnecessary and politically driven.
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Advocates of eugenics alleged that unscientific breeding was responsible for the woes of the world: it weakened society by encouraging 'inferior' classes and races and 'feeble' or 'mentally defective' individuals to spawn children as weak and useless as their parents.
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You may see this as a clever amusement, interesting but unscientific, in which case you clearly lack the vision to lead this country into the looming nightmare dystopia to come—equal parts 1984 and a bad episode of Black Mirror.
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And I am starting to do my quadrennial Nate Silver impression, gobbling up political polls, putting them through my completely unscientific matrix of second-guessing, and then making pronouncements about who is going to win the presidency and the Senate.
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"This idea that dietary saturated fats build up in the coronary arteries is complete unscientific nonsense," said Dr. Aseem Malhotra, first author of the new controversial editorial and a consultant cardiologist at London's Lister Hospital, in an email to CNN.
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The second scientist in my very unscientific survey lit up like a Bunsen burner when talking about the moment of discovery and getting to share it—going to a conference or presenting a paper, introducing that new knowledge to the world.
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However, the ability of the United States to keep its pledges about emissions has been undermined by the refusal by Congress to pass domestic legislation to act against greenhouse gas emissions, with the Republican Party gripped by unscientific climate change denial.
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My unscientific survey of Egyptian beach culture today has taught me that as Alexandria grew more crowded and dilapidated, the well heeled moved west — summering in villas built farther along the coast that maintained their access to a pristine shoreline.
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In its place, the museum's leadership has a grand vision of an utterly unscientific pursuit—that of expanding its cafeteria in order to make more money selling fast food to visitors, including the millions of school children it hosts each year.
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Because we're big fans of egalitarianism and, more importantly, believe it's important for women to be a part of conversations like these, Broadly asked several people to respond to a totally unscientific survey about their preferences in a marriage partner.
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Clinton the winner of the debate, Mr. Trump tried to claim that title for himself, citing unscientific online surveys, and told his advisers that he believed he had done well in the first half-hour of the 90-minute event.
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An unscientific test by New York Times journalists using the paper straws with a Diet Coke and a banana milkshake raised worries about the sturdiness of the straws and how long they would last when left in a drink or chewed.
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But, to be fair, the notion that U.F.O.s are going to take you to live on Venus is not obviously crazier than the Christian idea of Heaven and Hell, not to mention the unscientific beliefs put forth by other mainstream religions.
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Most people don't realize that the anti-GMO lobby actually helps large corporations like Monsanto, with the current overly stringent, largely unscientific regulatory framework making it prohibitively expensive and difficult for smaller players to get products from research to market.
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Though their sample is unscientific, the responses of the more than 500 employees who returned their survey showed a high rate of sexual harassment from customers, being forced to work off the clock, not receiving required breaks and not getting overtime pay.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A big-ticket Indian film that shows a post-apocalyptic world in which cellphones turn against their users has ruffled the feathers of the country's telecom companies, who say the movie is defamatory and promotes unscientific attitudes against mobile phones.
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A worker advocacy group says that the U.S. Department of Labor used an unscientific survey to justify a proposal that would allow teenagers to work in jobs previously deemed too dangerous for them, and refused to share it with Congress and the public.
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Even Chris Wallace fell into it, asking Donald Trump about "partial-birth abortion," an entirely unscientific name that was created by anti-choice legislators and activists to put abortion-rights supporters on the defensive and to successfully ban a safe procedure in 2003.
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" The experiment has been strongly criticized for years for being both unethical and unscientific, but hearing participants say it was staged and perhaps designed to achieve a certain outcome makes it even harder to take seriously; Blum's article calls it a "sham.
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In the piece published in The Salt Lake Tribune, which is owned by Hunstman's brother, Huntsman said that he would stay on the job after conducting "an unscientific survey among my colleagues" and asking his own naval officer sons if he should resign.
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On the campaign trail, both the far-right League and its coalition partner, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, made statements sympathetic to Italy's growing anti-vaccine movement, courting support from groups who buy into unscientific conspiracy theories that vaccines are dangerous.
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On the eve of the play's first Broadway revival, which opens on Tuesday, April 19933, here's an unscientific look at a concept that links, among other things, the first issue of Psychology Today, the star of "Footloose" and a shirtless J. J. Abrams.
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In our newly published research in "Citizen Science: Theory and Practice," we argue that the trust vacuum created by an initial failure of government at all levels was partly filled by unscientific fearmongering and a victimization narrative that sometimes drowned out reason.
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It was remarkable — and again this is highly unscientific — that people who had entered fandom in the '90s were much more likely to talk about fan fiction as being not-for-profit, as being separate from the creators, and separate from the powers that be.
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Here's the problem: When I surveyed my Instagram followers, a highly unscientific sample of over 225,000 respondents indicated that only 75 percent own a measuring tape meant for bodies (as opposed to a more rigid metal measuring tape meant to aid home improvement projects).
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But as more and more interest came in after handing it out to area friends (and product managers) throughout the course of an unscientific experiment, they decided to roll with it and try to turn it into the kind of market you'd find abroad.
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In an unscientific poll of 35 voters there, 11 told Reuters they had no view on Brexit, 15 wanted it as soon as possible, five said they voted to remain and four would consider switching to remain from leave if there were another vote.
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While unscientific, the results indicate strong support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has come under fire from retired military leaders and prominent members of the foreign policy community for a lack of foreign policy experience and controversial proposals allowing the torture of terrorism suspects.
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While it looked good for Mr. Trump, pollsters and some journalists offered a protest: Informal, unscientific "polls" on news sites produce junk data that does not indicate how the public actually feels, and should not be believed as an indication of — well, much of anything.
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Officials at the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a tenants' rights group, said an unscientific survey conducted of its members found that 15 percent of them would have a challenge paying rent in April, with 50 percent saying they could not pay it at all.
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He's threatened to cut off federal aid to the state and bizarrely taken credit for educating state policymakers about the importance that raking forests plays in preventing wildfires — his unscientific implication being that climate change doesn't play as much of a role as commonly believed.
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As a quick way of trying to figure out "What's Hot" at this year's conference in San Jose, I did a quick (and extremely unscientific) analysis of the top terms that showed up in the list of training classes, keynotes and presentation sessions throughout the week.
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The timing of your change of diet may have correlated with you getting the cancer all-clear, but isn't it potentially very dangerous to promote the unscientific idea that veganism can help cure cancer, beyond the notion that a healthy diet is generally good for you?
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Scientists and science communicators alike breathed a collective sigh of relief on March 26 when organizers of the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival announced they would pull a controversial documentary, decried for its wholly unscientific claims, from the lineup in the wake of outspoken protest against its screening.
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"The continued use of degrading and unscientific 'virginity exams' by the Afghan government is part of a broader pattern of abuses in which women and girls in Afghanistan are jailed on spurious 'moral crimes' accusations," Human Rights Watch senior researcher Heather Barr said in a statement.
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This afternoon, the US Committee on Science, Space and Technology—aka the House Science Committee, the body of Congress that oversees NASA, the Energy Department, and many of the other leading US scientific agencies—tweeted a brutally unscientific message of climate change denialism out to the world.
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Yet there are no intra-party polls on that scenario—or if there are, they're not getting promoted with the same eagerness that party officials have championed an entirely unscientific poll purporting to show how members of The Squad are massively unpopular with working-class white voters.
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While unscientific, the results indicate strong support for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has come under fire from retired military leaders and prominent members of the foreign policy community for a lack of foreign policy experience and controversial proposals to allow the torture of terrorism suspects.
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"This inaccurate and unscientific survey was paid for by politically motivated labor unions and its results are deliberately distorted and do not reflect how the overwhelming majority of our 30,000 cast members feel about the company," park spokeswoman Suzi Brown said, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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" Read: Nazi Chic: The Asian Fashion Craze That Just Won't Die An unscientific survey I conducted of people on the streets in Kathmandu yielded similar results: People of all ages and educational backgrounds referred to Hitler as a "genius," an "enigmatic personality," and a "great leader.
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"We are watching our friends die, governments attempt to criminalize our health care and efforts to exclude youth from the sports they love through the codification of unscientific and inhumane definitions of 'sex,'" says Strangio, who has been trying to spread awareness of the bills recently.
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Taking a closer look at the trends toward gluten-free and sugar-free foods, toward clean eating and wellness, she found a moralizing and restrictive message sometimes hiding between the lines, making unscientific promises about the benefits of certain foods and the damage caused by others.
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But an unscientific survey of that scene this month found a community that has turned its pain and rage into ragers: Parties with purpose, with perspective, and with a renewed sense of community, that seemed less necessary a year ago, have gathered a new generation together under one roof.
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To submit to STEM, which is fundamentally an artifact of marketing, is to lose time, irreplaceable time, when you might be creating a mind, living in the harmonies of prime numbers and the elementary particles, and getting a chance at an unscientific notion that George Washington called happiness.
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Screenshot: GizmodoThere is a school of thought that all this tweaking doesn't make much difference, but our (admittedly quite unscientific) testing says otherwise: Our aging Pixel 2 grabs 5-6 extra percentage points over 30 minutes when the phone is switched off compared to when it's busy streaming something from Netflix.
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Like most of the other callous and unscientific anti-choice laws enacted recently across the country, the GOP's proposed ban on abortion after 20 weeks, which failed on the the floor of the Senate yesterday but that the GOP has promised to keep fighting for, would predominantly target low income women.
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Her detectives are always bluff, no-nonsense types who solve the case through highly unscientific generalizations about appearances (people with slate-blue eyes are always oversexed, according to one of them), and who always make sure to pause for a proper English tea no matter how pressing a case might be.
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On the face of it, this is supposed to be a history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; it turns out to be something much stranger — an inventive and beguiling biography of the idiosyncratic mother-daughter pair who developed the indicator using their own, decidedly unscientific, interpretations of human behavior.
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"This kind of rhetoric is both ignorant and harmful, and it sends a terrible message to youth who are may already be struggling," Oakley explained, adding that while transgender people are gaining support nationwide, "South Dakota stands apart for its relentless and deeply unscientific attacks on the transgender community, particularly kids."
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The "misinformation" these centers offer typically includes limited options for the next steps of pregnancy and unscientific sexual and reproductive health explanations, according to a joint statement by the Society for Adolescent Health and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology that was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) as the next commander in chief, according to a new (but unscientific) survey by Military Times.
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Unscientific polling over the years has led me to believe that Ferlinghetti (like E. E. Cummings and Charles Bukowski) used to be something of a gateway poet for young people in America, and a residue of nostalgic fondness remains even for those readers who have moved on to ostensibly more sophisticated stuff.
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I don't know if it's the mood of the times or just the mood of Times readers, but based on a highly unscientific (and endlessly fascinating) survey that started last week, the best movie romances (so far) of the 21st century serve the bitter with the sweet, the melancholy with the moonstruck.
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The frenzy started when Lisa Debruine, a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow, posed this question: When she asked Twitter users in an unscientific survey whether they could hear the image — which actually lacks sound, like most animated GIFs — nearly 70 percent who responded said they could.
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" I asked the Interior Department who these terrorists are and they pointed me toward Zinke's August 20163 editorial in USA Today, where he said that radical environmentalists "make outdated and unscientific arguments, void of facts, because they cannot defend the merits of their policy preferences year after year as our forests and homes burn to the ground.
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The lawsuit, brought against Goop by ten counties in California, argued that the company made unscientific claims about the health benefits of their Jade Egg and Rose Quartz Egg — which Goop advises inserting into the vagina to "increase sexual energy and pleasure" — and their Inner Judge Flower Essence Blend, which they said would help prevent depression.
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My wholly unscientific picks of the bunch were Mobilus Labs, because bone conduction communication is just cool; Kiroku, which has the potential to solve the patient record keeping overhead faced by medical staff, starting with dentists; and Sensum, which is building a software platform coupled with off-the-shelf hardware to detect and prevent premature childbirth.
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In an extremely unscientific poll aimed at people in their twenties and thirties, only 15% of the 1,229 ~yung adults~ polled said they own a 4K TV. Nearly 503% said they own a non-4K TV. Multiple commenters said that they had 1080p televisions from four or five years ago that still work, so there's no need to upgrade.
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A lawsuit, brought against Goop by ten counties in California, argued that the company made unscientific claims about the health benefits of their Jade Egg and Rose Quartz Egg — which Goop advises inserting into the vagina to "increase sexual energy and pleasure" — and their Inner Judge Flower Essence Blend, which they said would help prevent depression.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a damning report today that shows how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), better known as your airport's security force, created and then expanded a program meant to spot suspected terrorists based on deceptive behavior, even though it relied on unscientific data and ultimately led to racial profiling and harassment in airports nationwide.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday again pushed unscientific polls to prove he won the latest presidential debate.
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Currently, five Democratic candidates are still in the race—down from a total of nine—but Rouda is leading in fund-raising and, by some measures, grassroots support; he has the most Twitter followers by far—more than 21980,22016—and has come out ahead in unscientific polls taken at a series of Indivisible-organized candidate debates.
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And when I talk to my sort of unscientific focus group of friends and family, I think that's what people are clamoring for, it's like okay, I know it's happening but I'm hearing it from 27 different angles, tell me why I care, how this fits into the bigger picture, why is this different, how should I prioritize?
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The commission "has taken a giant step in purging unscientific and unreliable bite-mark evidence from courtrooms nationwide," said M. Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project, which had urged the commission to investigate the topic, including the case of a man who spent 28 years in prison based largely on bite identifications that were later discredited.
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Even though Slate and Time warned their readers that their site's polls were mostly fun and unscientific ("Online reader polls like this one are not statistically representative of likely voters, and are not predictive of the debate outcome will effect the election," Time wrote), the numbers and the subsequent viral screenshots sharply contrasted with the dominant ("mainstream") narrative that Hillary had won. #TrumpWon!
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The company, Neurocore, which has received more than $5 million from Ms. DeVos and her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., to run "brain performance centers" in Michigan and Florida, lost an appeal before an advertising-industry review board, which found that the company's claims of curbing and curing a range of afflictions without medication were based on mixed research and unscientific internal studies.
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However, a review of publicly available information shows that not only are most of the polls in question inherently unscientific, but that the CPD and its hand-picked pollsters are engaged in a concerted effort to elect establishment candidates in general, and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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" Season 8 doesn't have a premiere date yet — although we used a highly unscientific method to predict that it'll air in 2019 — and Momoa seemed to confirm that we shouldn't expect the final six installments to appear in 2018: "Seeing [Jon Snow and his companions] on that [frozen lake] island, white walkers all around, and the dragon turns into a white walker… You're just like: What?
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Wednesday criticized the media for saying online post-debate polls "don't mean anything," as he continues to brag about winning the surveys many consider unscientific and unrepresentative.
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"Providers do tend to think a preference for a nonhormonal method is inherently unscientific, and we tend to dismiss that preference as not being founded in fact, and we have to recognize that women have real personal reasons for their preferences," said Dr. Christine Dehlendorf, director of the program in woman-centered contraception in the department of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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In an extremely unscientific poll of riders on the 7 train Thursday morning, the divided opinions seemed to fall along age lines (baby boomers did not seem to like the change) as well as ideological ones: Do riders prefer to avoid any possible interaction with fellow commuters or are they open to an opportunity to laugh with strangers at inside jokes about the city, as Ms. Lum's announcements seem to encourage?
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So far, the new term's docket includes cases involving, among other things, the use of race in redrawing state legislative districts, a free-speech challenge to a federal law that denies protection to disparaging trademarks, a challenge to the secrecy of jury deliberations when there is evidence that a juror was racially biased against the defendant and Texas's unscientific standard for determining whether someone is intellectually disabled enough to be spared from execution.
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In fact, I will close by noting that not even the three of us are completely in agreement about it: I (Turkheimer) am convinced that the question is irredeemably unscientific; Nisbett accepts it as a legitimate scientific question, and thinks evidence points fairly strongly in the direction of the black-white gap being entirely environmental in origin; while Harden questions the quality of the existing evidence, but thinks more determinative data may be found in future genetic knowledge.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE for a second day after his debate with Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE is bragging about winning online polls that are unscientific and unrepresentative.
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